Have you ever tried Chicken Salad Chick Egg Salad? It is a great basic egg salad that can be put together in a matter of a few minutes. Best of all it’s easy to make, and delicious!
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About Chicken Salad Chick Restaurants
If lucky, you live near one of the Chicken Salad Chick restaurants. They are a new chain of fast-casual dining that is wonderful! They serve up, guess guessed it, chicken salad, but they also serve egg salad, pimento cheese salad, and all sorts of delicious soups. You always get a sweet cookie with your meal. I don’t know what is better than that!
The decor is super cute; it is like stepping into your great-grandmother’s country farm home. The food isn’t complicated; you won’t find dishes like sweet potato bisque and kale salad.
You will be served classic dishes we all love. The Chicken Salad Chick Egg Salad with relish is very good, and this is the recipe I created for you. So you can still enjoy their food until one of these opens next to you.
What makes the Chicken Salad Chick Egg Salad recipe unique?
Simple ingredients prepared well. Chicken Salad Chick is known for its delicious salads, like broccoli salad, Sassy Scotty, and even Fruity Fran.
Ingredients you’ll need
You don’t need to hunt down exotic ingredients to make amazing food. I bet you have everything in your pantry to make this recipe. The egg salad contains a few simple ingredients. Here’s a list of what you need:
- Hard-boiled eggs
- Mayonnaise
- Sweet pickle relish
- Sweet pickle relish juice
- Tarragon vinegar or white vinegar
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
How to make egg salad
- Peel the hard-boiled eggs.
- Chop the eggs very finely.
- In a large bowl, mix together mayo, sweet pickle relish, tarragon vinegar, sweet pickle relish juice, salt, and black pepper.
- Add the chopped eggs to the mayonnaise mixture. Very gently stir to combine.
Recipe notes
Getting this in the right ratio makes all of the difference. Too much or too little of any ingredient will change both the flavor and texture.
To cook your eggs, I have a great recipe for making hard-boiled eggs on the stove, and how to make hard-boiled eggs in an InstantPot.
The real difference in this egg salad is the eggs are finely minced. When I make egg salad at home, I usually chop them into small pieces, but the eggs are minced very fine. I think this is one of the reasons the egg salad tastes so good. The flavors mix better when the eggs are chopped super fine.
CopyKat Tip: A pastry blender works great for finely chopping eggs.
Tips for peeling eggs
- Buy your eggs 7 to 10 days before you want to use them, making them easier to peel.
- Boil eggs in salted water. Just a little salt in the water helps.
- When you cook your eggs, cool them quickly by placing them in an ice bath. This will make the eggs easier to peel.
How to serve Chicken Salad Chick Egg Salad
If you want it like the restaurant, you can serve egg salad in three ways:
- It is served by the scoop. Place a large scoop on a plate of leaf lettuce. Serve with crackers.
- It is served as a sandwich on Wheat Berry bread, toasted or not. They will add leaf lettuce and fresh tomatoes.
- It is served on a croissant with the optional leaf lettuce and tomatoes.
What can you serve with egg salad?
We recommend serving this with some fruit salad or a light green salad.
How to store the leftovers
Leftovers should be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. They will last up to four days.
I hope you enjoy this recipe! I can’t wait until you get to try one of their delicious salads either made at home or in the restaurant! Try my copycat recipes for Chicken Salad Chick Classic Carol Chicken Salad with celery or Fancy Nancy Chicken Salad with grapes.
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- Fancy Nancy Chicken Salad
- Homemade Ham Salad
- Jason’s Deli Chicken Salad
- Newk’s Chicken Salad
- Orchard Chicken Salad
- Pecan Chicken Salad
- Tuna Creations
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Chicken Salad Chick Egg Salad
Ingredients
- 12 hard boiled eggs
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise may need 1 to 2 tablespoons more
- 3 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
- 1 teaspoon sweet pickle juice
- 1 teaspoon tarragon vinegar plain is ok
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Peel hard-boiled eggs. Chop very finely.
- Mix together mayonnaise, sweet pickle relish, tarragon vinegar, sweet pickle relish juice, salt, and black pepper.
- Mix in chopped egg very gently.
Notes
- Buy your eggs several days in advance before making the hard-boiled eggs, they are easier to peel between 7 and 10 days old.
- Cooling the eggs quickly after cooking them makes them easier to peel.
- Want to jazz up your egg salad, try adding some fresh dill, and some scallions or red onions.
Dave
You can also add a tsp or two of baking soda to the water, raises the Ph and makes them easy to peel. You can even peel a little from each end and then grasp between your thumb and index finger and blow the egg out of the shell!! Search YouTube for a video.
Fred kopi
where’s the chicken?
Stephanie Manley
The name of the restaurant is Chicken Salad Chick, the recipe is for their egg salad. Their egg sala contains no chicken.
RumRunner
This may be the best egg salad I have ever eaten.
baltisraul
Steph,
If you hate peeling eggs you probable hate peeling potatoes for potato salad also. Problem solved. Buy a 32 oz bag of frozen small cubed hash browns and boil till soft, but not mushy. Now make your potato salad.
Stephanie
I am ok with peeling potatoes 😉 Don’t ask me why. Growing up we raised chickens for eggs. Fresh yard eggs were always so hard to peel.
I like your idea about the potato salad 😉 That could become a recipe!
David Linn
Chicken Salad Chick Egg Salad
Wheres the chicken in the recipe? also i did see someone ask about where the pickle juice went.
Regards.
David
Stephanie
The restaurant’s name is Chicken Salad Chick, this my copycat recipe for their egg salad.
Nance
Now in the dairy section, you can BUY bags of peeled hard boiled eggs. BEST thing since sliced bread – if you don’t want to peel – or don’t mind paying a little more.
Ceil
Add salt to the water when boiling eggs, I let the water come to a boil and shut off the heat, let eggs sit in the water 20 mins or longer, drain, then run cold water to cool eggs down..never have a problem peeling them.
baltisraul
In addition to the salt, add vinegar to the boiling water. Another similar way to help peeling is to keep the lid on the water and allow to sit about 12-13 min. on the cook top eye. Pour off the hot water and replace with cold water and a big glass of ice cubes. When the ice cubes have melted the eggs are ready to peel.
Jacalyn Miller-Williams
hi, we recently tried a “hard boiled egg loaf” in the InstaPot – NO PEELING!!! Can’t remember whose recipe online but it was great…
Stephanie
Oh, I just saw this! That is awsome.
CC
Just a little thing…recipe mixing says sweet pickle “juice” when blending, but not called for in ingredients. Are you saying to add this? And as a note, our local CSC uses garlic in theirs, which I’m allergic to, so I make my own at home like this. Thank you!
Stephanie
Add 1 teaspoon of pickle juice in the recipe. I am glad you can enjoy this recipe. That has to be tough being allergic to garlic!
Marie Czarnecki
Love Egg salad sandwiches, but hate to peel those darn eggs.
Jacalyn Miller-Williams
don’t peel! do an InstaPot “egg loaf” !!!
Stephanie
Man, I gotta try this! I hate peeling eggs!
Jeanne Smith
Do you have a pressure cooker or Instant Pot? They make perfect hard boiled eggs that are a snap to peel.
Judy Chatham
This looks great! Love, Mom